Title: Second in Command
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Warning: Unbeta and horrible grammar. Maybe OOC.
Chapter 11
Natsume instantly opened her eyes as she felt another presence in her room. The brunette kicked the blanket and sat up. She looked beside her bed and groaned when she noticed Reborn.
"Reborn! What're you doing here? Don't answer that," Natsume said and paused. "How did you enter my room? I lock my door." The brunette changed her question.
"I have my way," Reborn simply said and jumped on Natsume's bed landing on brunette's lap. "Stop whatever you had planned, Dame-Natsu or you'll never grow up."
"Uh…" Natsume averted her gaze so she couldn't see Reborn.
"A man's battle involves pride and a person's strength," Reborn flatly said.
"What is you point?" The brunette looked at the baby with indifferent look.
"Fight your battle with your own power, Natsume."
"…"
"Believe in yourself."
"Huh?"
"That's what you think about Tsuna when he is in trouble."
"…"
"Do the same, Natsume," Reborn said as he hopped away from the bed landed on the floor with ease. Natsume simply stared at her tutor and shrugged. The baby left the room using the door.
"Reborn…" She muttered softly as the door closed with soft click.
Tsuna stared at his sister back as they walked to the school. The brunet was still confused with the sudden plan changes after he woke up. Natsume knocked on his door with fully uniformed herself and she quickly told him that the plan changed. Tsuna was still in dazed, nodded at the younger twin without any words. They went to the breakfast like usual and received lunch box from their mother and left for the school without any other words.
Reborn smirked as he sipped his favorite drink and hopped of from the chair.
"Thanks maman for the breakfast," Reborn said and walked out from the kitchen.
Nana nodded and smiled. I leave them both to you.
"I want to make a detour," Natsume said for the first time after they were far enough from their house. The brunette stopped from the walk and stared down at her feet.
Tsuna quickly looked at his sister. "To where?"
"…shopping district."
"For what?"
"I want to buy something," Natsume said softly while her gaze still on the road. She sighed and tightened her grasp on her bag. "I want to buy that magazine."
"You mean this?" Tsuna pulled out the same magazine out from his bag and waved in front of his sister.
Natsume raised her head and her eyes widen at the book in Tsuna's hand. "What? But, how?"
"I bought it yesterday if you noticed that," Tsuna said and flipped the magazine until he reached certain pages. He quickly held the magazine in front of Natsume again. "You can do this for your test today. It's not that hard and I know you can manage it."
"Chocolate cake?" Natsume read the content and without her notice she already held the magazine in her hands as Tsuna slowly released it. The brunette scanned the figure, ingredients and method before she slightly nodded. "I think I can manage this…maybe."
"You can do it, I believe you, Natsume," Tsuna said with warm smile and gaze, making Natsume quickly stepped a back and covered her face from his brother gaze.
Tsuna-nii is looking so matured…it feels like I can depend on his word without any worries.
"Um, yeah, thanks Tsuna…yoshi," Natsume said softly and nodded while she was still covered her face with the magazine. The brunette could feel her cheeks were burning.
"You're welcome," Tsuna said and looked at his sister with confused gaze. "What's the matter, you been hiding behind that magazine? It's too hard for you?"
"N-No! It's nothing!" Natsume stammered and softly groaned.
"Are you sure?" Tsuna slowly held out his hand to his magazine, trying to touch it.
A bicycle brake suddenly heard, making both Tsuna and Natsume looked at the newcomer in front of them. Natsume carefully kept the magazine in her bag while her gaze still focused at the bicycle and its owner.
Wow, she is so beautiful.
The twin blinked and stared at the teenage girl in front of them who sat on her bicycle with grace look on her face. The girl pulled out something from her bag on her waist and threw it to the twin. "Here, you can have this."
Tsuna clumsily received the can and it fell on the road. Natsume stared at the can as the content leaked out. The girl with bicycle already left.
"Aw, I look so uncool," Tsuna said with defeat.
Natsume shrugged while her gaze still at the juice. What a waste and its orange tasted too. I like orange juice. Ah well, we should never leave any rubbish on the road.
The brunette crouched and held out her hand to pick up the nearly empty can when the twin noticed purple smoke evaporated from the spilled juice. Natsume quickly held back her hand and both of them quickly stepped a back.
"Why it's smoking? And in purple colour too?" Tsuna asked as he warily observed the purple smoke.
"I don't know," Natsume said and suddenly a bird fell down in front of the twin, fainting.
"What the hell?"
Tsuna and Natsume calmly walked at their school hallway while still thinking about the juice event. The twin stopped in front of their class door and Tsuna opened it. Both Tsuna and Natsume stiffened when they noticed too happy Gokudera stood in front of them.
"Good morning, tenth and Natsume-san," Gokudera happily greeted.
"Good morning, Gokudera-kun," Natsume greeted back and nodded at the grey haired teenage.
"Go-Gokudera-kun…please stops calling me that," Tsuna said as he raised both his hands. He looked at his sister who already went into the class. "Why can't you just call me like you call my sister?"
"No because tenth is tenth."
"But she is also one of the candidates," Tsuna said but he turned around when noticed another presence around.
"What're you two playing at? It's sounded fun, can I join it too?" Yamamoto said with cheerful aura came with him.
Tsuna sweat dropped. Yamamoto thinks this is a game while I'm having a serious conversation here.
Natsume looked at door and noticed Tsuna was having an awkward conversation with Gokudera and Yamamoto. The brunette ignored her older twin and sighed as she noticed the school idol arrived at their class door. She pulled out the magazine and flipped open the same page. The brunette stared at the figure of chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and strawberry slices as their topping.
Chocolate cake, huh?
Natsume stared at the various cakes which placed on display with a wide smile plastered on her face. The brunette quickly turned around when she felt her mother and brother arrived behind her.
"Na-chan, what're you staring at?" Nana asked her six year old daughter.
Natsume turned back to the display before looked back to their mother. "Um, cakes?"
Both Nana and Tsuna looked at the displays. Their mother crouched in front of her daughter so she could reach same eye level and patted her head. "Which one do you want?"
Natsume smiled.
The younger twin happily hummed on their way back as she held a small box of chocolate cake. Tsuna also joined his twin and hummed together while Nana smiled at her children's action.
Their happiness wasn't long as suddenly the younger twin fell down on the ground when someone who came out from nowhere had accidently hit himself with the poor girl. The box containing cake also fell down together and its content was scattered around.
The dinner that night was a long dead silence until the younger twin decided to sleep early.
Tsuna looked at their mother with a determined gaze.
Nana smiled warmly as she pulled out her cook book.
Natsume was doing her homework when her door was opened. She ignored the newcomer as the girl was too intense in doing her work. "Tsuna-niichan I'm busy right now, can we play later?"
A small plate with a slice of freshly baked chocolate cake was placed on Natsume's desk. The younger twin slowly averted her gaze to the new thing on her desk and her eyes widen.
"T-This…" Natsume then looked at her brother and noticed Tsuna was smiling with flour and cocoa powder patched around his face.
The first ever thing he made is chocolate cake and it was very delicious.
Natsume smiled to herself and closed the magazine. I can do it too, for Tsuna-nii's sake.
Yamamoto noticed the brunette happy feeling as he sat down. "Something good, Natsume-chan?"
Natsume turned around and looked at Yamamoto before she also noticed that both Tsuna and Gokudera was no where around their class. "I'm just remembering something good. Where is Tsunayoshi and Gokudera-kun?"
The baseball player grinned. "They go out."
"Huh?"
"Actually there is a kid attached to Tsuna's leg and he go out sending him back."
The brunette could feel some bad feeling came. "Um, Yamamoto-kun?"
"Yeah?"
"What's that kid look like?"
Yamamoto looked at the ceiling. "That kid wears a shirt with cow printed design," He said and paused. "Ah, he has this afro hair and there are two horns at each side. If I recall correctly he really looks like a cow. A small cute cow." The raven pointed at eac
"Ugh…Okay thanks for the information," Natsume awkwardly said and sighed. That kid is coming here too? First Reborn and now Lamboo? What's next? A beautiful girl and charming man? This is crazy.
"You know that kid?" The raven teenage asked.
"Uh…not really."
The baseball player nodded. "Hey Natsume-chan, do you also in their game too?"
Natsume blinked. "What game?"
"Mafia game."
"…" The brunette quickly looked away. Game? He thinks that mafia thing is a game?
"So you're in too!" Yamamoto smiled.
Natsume sweat dropped. "Um…I'm…"
"The more the merrier," The raven grinned.
Tsuna pulled Natsume out from their class with their lunch boxes in his arm. The younger twin released a sigh as she noticed Gokudera was tailing along behind them and Yamamoto not too far behind.
"Do you remember yesterday kid?" Tsuna suddenly spoke, making Natsume focused at her brother.
"Uh yeah, what about him? I learned from Yamamoto-kun that he was here earlier."
"Yeah, and that's why I came late to the class." Tsuna groaned and released his sister hand. He looked at Natsume with apologetic look. "Sorry for dragging you here but mom make our lunch box together."
Natsume nodded and pushed the door and all of them stepped out to the roof top. The brunette took a deep breath and slowly released it. Wow, I really need some fresh air before the next class. Natsume turned around and walked to group while hearing some argument between Gokudera and Yamamoto. The brunette sat down beside her brother.
"Hurry up, Tsunayoshi, I don't have time privilege now," The girl ordered.
Tsuna shrugged. She is back to herself, huh? Wait, time privilege?
"Why?" The older twin asked and immediately cursed himself. Damn it! Now I remember that she is a member of disciplinary committee! And I don't even get to know her schedule yet!
"Disciplinary committee," Natsume flatly said and stared at the lunch box in front of them.
Tsuna slightly grunted and opened their lunchbox. He passed a container to his sister and opened up his own. Both of them immediately placed down their container down as they noticed a purple smoke came out from it and a group of fly by birds fell down on the floor, fainting.
"What the?" Natsume stared at the fainted bird.
"This is just like this morning!" Tsuna clutched his head and groaned.
Gokudera looked at the food and blanched. "T-That's…"
Yamamoto stared at the twitched birds with fascinating expression. "Wow, the bird fainted." He poked one of the birds.
Reborn showed up himself. "It's better if you don't eat that."
"Reborn!" Both Tsuna and Natsume looked at the baby.
"You'll go straight to heaven in one bite." Reborn added.
Natsume gulped. In one bite and straight to heaven? This is deadly food but mom never prepared anything like this!
"Come out, I know you're here, Bianchi." Reborn called and looked at the door. Everyone focused at the door as it was opened and a beautiful girl stepped out to the roof top.
"You're the same girl this morning!" The twin stood up while Gokudera's jaw opened.
"B-Big sister," Gokudera said as he clutched his stomach and curled on the floor.
"Big sister?" Tsuna quickly looked at the girl who walked to them.
"It's been a while, Hayato," Bianchi said and looked at Reborn.
"Ciaossu, Bianchi." Reborn casually greeted the girl.
Bianchi with a blush on her cheeks, smiled. "Reborn!" She called and twirled her hair with her finger. "I've come to take you back, Reborn."
Natsume slowly shifted herself while Bianchi and Reborn having conversation. She really needed to go out from that place. The brunette nearly successes as she already halfway to the door but quickly halted her movement when Bianchi declared something.
"I'll kill them, oh I mean I will come and bring you back, Reborn once they died."
Tsuna and Natsume blanched at the statement as Bianchi left the rooftop.
Yamamoto who munched his lunch casually turned to Tsuna and Natsume with a grin. "Gokudera's sister is sure pretty."
As the raven said the name, everyone quickly focused at the curled, sickly groaned Gokudera on the floor.
Natsume looked at her work with a satisfied smile but after a few seconds, she sighed and shrugged. Next class will be home economic…Will I do fine?
"Believe in yourself."
"Eek!" The brunette shrieked, stiffened and turned her head slightly. My goodness! I forgot that I'm in this place! The girl released a soft awkward laugh as she moved to the door. "I g-guess, I'll take my leave now," Natsume said and without waiting any response she dashed out from the room leaving Hibari alone.
The perfect lowered down the book in his hand and stared at the closed door with indifferent gaze. "Rest time is over, huh?"
Kyoko and Hana happily chatted as they noticed the brunette stepped into the cooking room. Natsume acknowledged their presence by slightly nodded to them before she stopped at one benchtops. The brunette pulled out her apron and a cloth using as hair cover before slowly wore it starting with the apron. While making a knot for her apron, Natsume scanned the kitchen area and stiffened once she noticed another presence other than her classmates.
"B-Bianchi? What's she doing here?"
The said girl turned around and looked at Natsume with a warm smile. The brunette quickly looked away and groaned softly. That smile is full of malice, I can feel it.
The class started with briefing from the responsible teacher for that class and everyone was paying their attention including Natsume but the brunette sometimes would take a look at Bianchi. Natsume shrugged and focused back to her teacher.
"The cake you will make later, you can give to the boys of your class."
The class murmured and Natsume stared at the table. "I can give to Tsuna-nii as my thanks to him," She said softly and gasped. The brunette quickly looked at Bianchi and sweat dropped. Bianchi send a meaningful look towards Natsume and the latter didn't like it at all.
This is disaster.
"So Kyoko, who will you give your cake to?" Hana casually asked as she picked up the ingredients.
"Hm, Tsuna-kun, it looks like he is doing his best these few days and I want to thanks him about that other day," Kyoko replied with a smile.
Natsume sighed and took a peek to Bianchi who also heard the conversation.
Ugh, I don't really like this!